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> American attitudes towards pornography really irk me. It's just as much free speech as any other speech. First, it's not just Americans. Second, it's not fre
by ttt0 6y ago
> American attitudes towards pornography really irk me. It's just as much free speech as any other speech.
First, it's not just Americans. Second, it's not free speech and it never was. People who came up with free speech supported obscenity laws. The main purpose of free speech is to ensure that you can criticize the people in power.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoObscenity laws started in 1873. Well after the Constitution. The Supreme Court has steadily pushed the bar higher since it was created.
- ttt0 6y agoAnd since when do we have pornography as we know it right now? I'm almost 100% sure that if you went back in time and showed them furry porn, you'd be thrown in prison. If you're lucky.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoRegardless of moving goal posts, I don't buy this argument. If we went back in the last century, they'd throw me in an asylum for being bipolar. Heck, I'd probably be forcibly sterilized due to the US being the first country to support and implement eugenics. Violations of civil liberties in the US have always existed to great extremes.